Hopefully her price will settle out a bit after the initial rush. She appears to be in decent demand even just a few weeks after her release there are only a few listings for her up on Yahoo Japan Auctions and the buyout prices for her are significantly higher than her retail price. I figured correctly, because pally Sasara is a very impressive figure indeed. I had some slight misgivings because Volks’s Moekore figures tend to not feature the cleanest production quality, but I figured Sasara looked good enough that I wouldn’t care. When Volks announced that their Sasara figure was called the “paladin” version, my curiosity was piqued, and when I saw the promo pictures, my interest was confirmed. I stayed away from World of Warcraft for years because I was told that paladins were only good for healing and I didn’t care to spend my game time staring at a CTRaid status window while mindlessly spamming the Decursive key (I wound up doing that after I bought the game, anyway). I played a paladin in EverQuest despite the hindrance of the hybrid experience penalty. My Baldur’s Gate parties always had two paladins – my player character and Ajantis in the first game and Keldorn in the second. My party leader in the Bard’s Tale games was always a paladin. I’ve always admired the ethos of the paladin: the self-sacrificing knight devoted to justice and charity. Despite not being particularly religious, I always like to play as a paladin in role-playing games.